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2. Place this file and Slide Show mode and click your way through the points at your own pace. It will help you focus and learn.

3. How an example topic helps
Seeing how things work always helps us understand. So, we have an example topic requiring the higher order thinking that you are expected to demonstrate it in your assignments
We use this topic to help you see how to:
1. Analyse your question/problem in a way that encourages higher order thinking right from the beginning
Once you are thinking ‘higher order’, you will be able to find the most appropriate kinds of literature to meet the higher order requirements
You will be able to apply that literature to the tasks set in the assignment
2. Evaluate your proposed solution/answer to ensure that:
It meets the higher order requirements set by the assignment
That you have clearly demonstrated your thinking to your marker, not just to yourself, ensuring that you receive the grade you deserve. Of course, in professional practice, this would ensure that your solution can be properly implemented.

4. Our example topic
How can Smart Growth Principles be used to help identify, prevent and/or resolve transportation issues that influence the level of isolation experienced by individuals and communities in Australia?
As you consider the topic, think about the concepts involved NOT the keywords in the question – this may challenge your past practices and advice from elsewhere
Thinking concepts will help you set yourself up for higher order thinking
Thinking keywords will set you up for shallower thinking.

5. The Problem Solving Cycle … getting you on track
If you haven’t used the Problem Solving Cycle (introduced in ENG1101) for a while, now is a great time to re-acquaint yourself with it – you won’t find a better tool to guide your literature searching and application
A focus on Stages 1, 2 and 3 is critical as it helps you identify the important topics and start to think about the possible links between them – setting some direction for your thinking journey.
Click to view the Cycle video

6. Moving along the higher order thinking track
Before we can begin to consider the application of Smart Growth Principles to help us analyse and resolve particular issues or to apply them in particular geographic contexts, we need to gain a sound understanding of the Smart Growth Principles.
We don’t want to read complex literature on the topic or debates about the Principles, we just need to understand it for ourselves so we can do our own high order thinking and demonstrate that thinking in the assignment work.
So, our time and effort goes into finding a discussion or two about the fundamentals that will set us up for our higher order thinking about the isolation of individuals and communities and its connection to transport issues and Smart Growth Principles – how they are connected and how those connections can be manipulated for positive outcomes.
Can you see how this simple identification of the topic elements and their broad connections and relationships put us on a track to think deeply? We are setting ourselves up to keep asking ourselves questions – the WHY and HOW questions that drive deep and critical thinking.

7. Asking & answering the HOW & WHY questions
Social isolation ↓
Why & how arises?
How to prevent & overcome?
Australian context?
Smart Growth Principles
Identifying the HOW and WHY questions Finding the answers to those questions
Analysis & synthesis to suggest transportation-related changes for resolution/alleviation/prevention
Drive the literature and information that you look for and use

8. The Problem Solving Cycle again
Once you think that you have pulled together your analysis and offered a resolution to the problem, it’s time to double check that you actually have solved your problem/answered your question
A check can often reveal that you haven’t resolved the entire problem or that there is a flaw in the logic that you have used
This is a common problem as thinking deeply around a complex topic can lead the brightest thinkers to focus on the trees at the expense of the forest.
This checking places us in Stages 5 and 6 of the Problem Solving Cycle
Click to view the Cycle video

9. Checking the problem is resolved
How can Smart Growth Principles be used to help identify, prevent and/or resolve transportation issues that influence the level of isolation experienced by individuals and communities in Australia?
Ask yourself questions like these when you review your assignment work:
Social isolation ↓
Why & how arises?
How to prevent & overcome?
Australian context?
Smart Growth Principles
Analysis & synthesis to suggest transportation-related changes for resolution/alleviation/prevention
Is it clear that you understand the Smart Growth Principles?
Have you demonstrated an analytical understanding of how social isolation arises, rather than simply described social isolation?
Have you clearly demonstrated how the relevant Smart Growth Principles can impact on social isolation?
Has your analysis of the transportation issues drawn on the Smart Growth Principles?
As you drew on the international literature, have you taken into account anything particular to the Australian context?
Do your integrated transport solutions clearly draw on your social and transportation analyses or are the connections.

10. Other resources in this suite of online help
The Planning literature & your assignment tasks
Finding & using documents from professional organisations & governments
Accessible from the platform resource – URP4001: Finding and using the Planning literature
Finding & using books & videos
Finding & using journal articles & conference papers
Help with in-text referencing
If you need more help, contact the Library – we’re here for you!!